It is what is left when every plan is gone, and a person should spend all their strength on never being where I was, and none of it on being ready to do what I did.”

I closed my eyes.

I did not care, in that moment, whether anyone in the room thought I had been brave or foolish.

There was only one thing in the whole world I needed to know.

Chapter 13 — My Baby

“My baby,” I said.

“Please.”

An obstetrician came within minutes.